Partisanship, Ideology, and Representation in Latin America

Abstract

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Explaining citizen perceptions of party ideological positions: The mediating role of political contexts

“…This refers to the problem of dierent respondents interpreting a question or concept dierently. One approach to this that can be applied to many existing surveys is Aldrich-McKelvey scaling (Aldrich and McKelvey, 1977;Palfrey and Poole, 1987;Armstrong et al, 2014;Hare et al, 2015;Saiegh, 2014;Lo, Proksch and Gschwend, 2014), which makes use of individuals' self-placements.…”

Sistematización conceptual de las mediciones de ajuste ideológico entre la oferta de representación política y la demanda ciudadana

“…Entre las principales críticas o limitaciones expresadas en relación con la escala izquierda-derecha encontramos, por ejemplo, que puede ocurrir que la escala tenga diferentes significados para diferentes personas, o en diferentes lugares (Cavazza, Colloca, & Roccato, 2021). Puede ocurrir también, como indica Saiegh (2014), que las personas interpreten los intervalos propuestos por la escala de forma diferente en función de dónde se sitúe la autoubicación ideológica del respondiente. Podemos hablar además de distintos dominios que conforman la ideología política: dominios morales, culturales, religiosos, económicos, etc.…”